{"id":3899,"date":"2015-07-23T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/23\/myanmar-interrupted\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:27:44","slug":"myanmar-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/myanmar-interrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar, Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Myanmar-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18499 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Myanmar-small.jpg\" alt=\"Myanmar-small\" width=\"180\" height=\"206\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/206;\" \/><\/a>Last week, officials announced that Myanmar is slated to go to the ballot box on Nov. 8 for what will be the country\u2019s first open general election in 25 years. Understanding the election\u2019s political stakes requires a look back at the past few years, which have seen some promising developments. Brandon Tensley, a freelance journalist and 2012 Furman graduate, does just that in a piece for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/07\/16\/myanmar-interrupted\/?funews_login_redirect=0\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Tensley graduated from Furman with a degree in political science and German, and earned a M.Phil. degree in European Politics and Society at the University of Oxford in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, officials announced that Myanmar is slated to go to the ballot box on Nov. 8 for what will be the country\u2019s first open general election in 25 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}